Fence Quotes - Page 15

• (Talks about her childhood) I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sides, Feels

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• It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Thrown

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.879, Scholastic Inc.

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• In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Hands, Trying

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

  Laozi

  Humility, Safety, Political

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• Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

  Ronald Reagan

  Feet, Ideas, President

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• Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff. And the disrespect for the possession laws fosters a disrespect for laws and the system in general... On top of this is the distinct impression among the youth that some police may use the marihuana laws to arrest people they don't like for other reasons, whether it be their politics, their hair style or their ethnic background.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Marijuana, Impact, Hair

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• A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.

  Tom Waits

  Sarcastic, Fence Post, Midget

  Song: The Piano Has Been Drinking

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• By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

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• Heaven and hell are not very distant, they are neighbors; only a small fence divides them. You can jump that fence, even without a gate. You go on jumping from this to that. In the morning you may be in heaven; by evening you are in hell. This moment heaven, that moment hell. It is just an attitude, just a state of your mind, just how you are feeling. Many times, in a single life, you may visit hell, and many times you may visit heaven. In a single day also.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Attitude, Jumping

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Disease, Abstinence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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• If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.

  Julie Krone

  Perseverance, Gates, Climbs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you look in one direction where Troy's chair was, you could see out through the yard across the street, there was an old cork bar advertisement for five cents. We wanted it to feel like this was real life [in Fences] and that it extended blocks and blocks.

  Denzel Washington

  Real, Block, One Direction

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two weeks of rehearsal. He is a truth teller, and he is a truth seer. So he knows when something is not going in the right direction, and he will call you on it. But, he knows the word to use to unlock whatever is blocking you. So I think he's fabulous and he's a teacher.

  Viola Davis

  Teacher, Block, Character

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."

  Viola Davis

  Reading, Believe, Thinking

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Play, Two

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• What we did [shooting "Fences"] was we got young students from Carnegie Mellon, the acting and theater students, and we had them as our understudies. I told them, "You have to be off book and be ready. If Viola [Davis] has to leave you have to jump in."

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Acting, Shooting

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I had the kid [on "Fences" ] who understudied me so I could stand back and think about shots so he had to learn the blocking and everything. I'd come in early sometimes, and they 'd be in there rehearsing and working on their stuff. I didn't want them to feel like, "Oh these are people who can't be touched." We're all working actors; we're all trying to get better.

  Denzel Washington

  Block, Kids, Thinking

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else.

  Viola Davis

  Balls, Scene, Relentless

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything.

  Viola Davis

  Laughing, Twenties, Twenty Somethings

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Drama, Commitment

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

  Viola Davis

  Strong Women, Thinking, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.

  Viola Davis

  Emotional, People, Might

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• But along with all of that it was, "Oh, isn't he a great storyteller? Oh, it's that why I married him? Isn't he handsome? Oh, what am I going to make for dinner today?" I put all of that as a part of [Roses's from "Fences"] inner everyday monologue so, by the time he tells he that news and all of that I feel that it's there already.

  Viola Davis

  Rose, Everyday, News

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• [Rose from "Fences"] couldn't just jump out there. Not just because of economic reasons but because how she was looked at in society at the time. There were a lot of factors that made you stay I guess.

  Denzel Washington

  Rose, Reason, Economic

  Source: shadowandact.com

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